i had the same problem and after taking it to about 3 tranny shops to check it out none of them found any thing wrong with it i found a broke vacum hose on the intke manifold it is on the front of the intake manifold torwards the front of the car i replaced that and proof it was much better i don't know what a vacum line has to do with the tranny but it took care of it. this was done on a 1.8t

Krayon

 

wtf thats so messed up but thats cool

 

Thats wierd maybe the vac has something to do with the clutch system but i doubt it, I wonder what the vac does to the tranny

 

I'm right there with you guys. 2nd gear is a bitch sometimes. From what I hear this is a common problem and that's just the way it is unless you get a new tranny, or that synchro thing.. what is that? Can someone explain more about it please?

 

instead of doing all that stuff, I prefer to buying 2.8 tranny.

 

am i still sleeping or did i see someone write 7 G's????
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if i put another 7000 in this car i'll get the 06 model with no tranny problems

i think my bicycle is coming out of the garage this weekend

 

OK.

Im not sure if you people know how tranny's work but heres a brief overview.

Your gears NEVER seperate from eachother.. so you can never GRIND your gears.

What your are really grinding is the COLLAR. You move the collar with the shifter.

On most tranny's now there are synchros on the collar, what these do is as the COLLAR moves closer to the selected gear pattern the synchros start touching. this speeds up the collar to the same speed of the layshaft/gears. Old cars you would have to give the car some gas to get everything spinning the same , "double clutching"

the labor to replace a synchro is more than that to replace the tranny.

 

You really wanted to make that 600th post count didnt you!

 

Most of my posts are pretty long. I dont have a lot of . "yea" "search" posts.

I feel that people need as much explination as possible, it helps you learn.

.... i know theres a phrase somewhere..

ah yea! "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish he will eat for a lifetime"

kinda the same thing I guess.

 

Yea.